Monday, 8 March 2010

The Amsterdam Easter Soul Weekender promises to be a truly special event. Taking place in our usual venue The Bathtub on Saturday April 3rd and our Soulcruise at Boat 10 on Sunday 4th. With the resident Amsterdam Soul Club DJ's and added to the roster are "Struttin" DJ's Alviz (Lefties Soul Connection), Taco Fett (Waxwell Records) & Bart Fader. Amsterdam Soul Club

Strap a drum to your back and look for adventure! That's what Convoi Exceptional has been doing from Berlin to Copenhagen, Paris to Rome and back to their home base in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Over the past few years the five guys that make up Convoi Exceptional have been conquering the streets of Europe. `Performing on the streets is fantastic. It's fun getting busy shoppers to stop and listen and see them be swept up in the amazing energy produced by the beat of the drums.

Convoi Exceptional are going to give a special performance and show the movie they did while playing in the streets on New York next Friday march 12 @ De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam alternative music festival have anounced the complete line up for the 2010 edition. for more infor visit London Calling

LoneLady, We Have Band, Fools Gold, Darwin Deez, Stornoway, Holly Miranda, Sunny Day in Glasgow, Emanuel and the Fear, And So I Watch You From Afar en Joe Worricker, Doll & the Kicks, the Features, Esben and the Witch, Erland and the Carnival, Cosmo Jarvis, Chapel Club, Egyptian Hiphop, Everything Everything, Hudson Mohawke, the Hundred in the Hands. Detroit Social Club and Villagers

The spectacular Aurora Borealis appear over the Norwegian countryside.

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